computer
Quick Capture Shortcut for 2023 Vault
Getting the Quick Capture Obsidian (Mac) shortcut working wasn't as I'd worried it would be. I just needed to change a few settings to the new value and change the to process tag.
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psychology
Pop Science Shouldn't Quote Real Science
This is one of the most important things I can share with you. Why is it so hard to be happy? Because life was mostly short, brutal, and highly competitive over the two hundred thousand years our species has existed on this planet. And our brains are trained for this
programming
Redundancy in Software
An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson Behind this dry title lies something very interesting. I first heard about this paper from Ralph Johnson in a newsgroup discussion about program correctness. It turns out that one of the avenues that engineers
open-source
Can Patreon Save Open Source?
Can Patreon help sustain open source projects financially?
open-source
Most Don't Pay. But Those Who Pay, PAY
This strategy is closely related to the concept of “whales” in gaming, in which 1 to 2 percent of users drive 80 percent of gaming companies’ revenue (View Highlight) I've noticed something similar with Stenography. Most users don't pay at all, but those who choose to
entrepreneurship
Good Products Are Hard To Vary
to gain fans who are willing to pay $1,000 a year—no small sum—creators need to offer a step-function increase in value. The recipe, then, is to go niche and to tap into users’ desire for results. Practically, what does that look like? It means providing differentiated content,
interior-design
Buy Items You Have a Disposal Plan for
Halving requirements is the same as doubling capacity. - Nigel Calder Whenever I buy something new, I try to ask myself how hard it will be to rid myself of the item. This helps decrease the blow of moving substantially and causes you to take better care of your items
programming
100R Out Here Making Code Art Real
Orca is an esoteric programming language, designed to create procedural sequencers in which each letter of the alphabet is an operation, where lowercase letters operate on bang, uppercase letters operate each frame. The application is not a synthesiser, but a flexible livecoding environment capable of sending MIDI, OSC & UDP
anime
AoT Top 10 Survey Corp Thoughts
What are the top 10 thoughts of the Survey Corps from Attack on Titan?
social-media
Will TikTok Make People Perform as Hard as Instagram Did?
We hire social media to create a virtual representation of the life we want to live, but never actually live it. I wonder if this is as true in the TikTok era as it was in the Instagram era. It seems that TikTok has much less "self seriousness"
programming
Sometimes You Just Need to Start Cutting Shit
Sometimes you have to stop sharpening the saw, and just start cutting shit Some people tend to jump into problems and just start writing code. Other people tend to want to research and research and get caught in analysis paralysis. In those cases, set a deadline for yourself and just
programming
Code Something Every Week
If you don’t have a good grasp of the universe of what’s possible, you can’t design a good system This is something I struggle with a lot as my responsibilities take me further and further from the day to day of software engineering. Keeping up with the